Blues Vs. Oilers Open Thread

“I don’t mean to sound all French, but I love me some Italian sausage.” Nice one…

Wagner to Peoria, King plays while M Johnson sits, Perron moves in with the conditioning coach, Legace to have surgery after the season… interesting stuff being reported today.

having a french canadian living with the team’s strength and conditioning coach, will the irony never cease? why not just make dj king sell his sweet condo and move into a peace-loving hippy commune or make brewer live among human beings rather than in his cyborg pod? it’s madness.

Wow. THAT is called bringing the funny.

Why the @#$% is Wagner the one being sent to Peoria?

Backman sucks rancid ass the last couple of games, so Wagner gets sent to Peoria. Great, Backman’s sitting tonight. Why doesn’t AM sit Brewer’s robotic ass too, and let Wagner play in the NHL where he belongs instead of sending him to play the Hamilton Bulldogs tonight?

Mike @#$%ing Eastwood must have given Brewer “the pictures” as they passed each other on Eastwood’s way out of town. Grrrrr…

Boss,

Brad Lee’s comment in the Top Eleven Ways To Celebrate AM’s One-Year Anniversary about going to see the first “Spider-Man” movie and rooting for the Green Goblin… now THAT was “bringing the funny.”

brewer blows boo him tonight.

andy strickland has become public blues enemy number one. you want to insult our intelligence about the game b/c you get paid to toot the horn the way your told. hypocrite. you might as well go to chicago or detriot strickland. i shit on your mothers face strickland…i SHIT on IT! HAHAHAHAHAHA

Don’t even get me started on Strickland…

Speaking of Wagner and Peoria…

Wagner’s wearing #14 for the Rivermen tonight; I haven’t head his name mentioned on the broadcast yet, but they DID mention that Mike Glumac has a shorthanded goal (assisted by Trudel), and Nikolai Lemtyugov has a goal (assisted by Kariya and Porter) for a 2-zip Rivermen lead with about two minutes to play in the first period.

…and Wagner just laid a serious hip check on Greg Stewart.

Quick update… with four minutes to play in the second period, the Rivermen lead Hamilton 5-0. Linglet has the last two goals for the Rivermen, and Micki Dupont has also scoredin addition to the Glumac and Lemtyugov goals mentioned earlier.

1-0 Blues. Anyone else here to tell me about what happened? I’m writing and listening to the Rovermen game on the computer, and I don’t have a TV in my office (yet).

B.

garon didn’t square up well on backes on a pp rush up the ice and he beat him low blocker on the short side

walker looks like a lost puppy dog out there and toivonen just saved his ass

Does anyone think Brewer signed a contract for the Detroit Red Wings in the offseason and didn’t bother to tell anyone?

1-1 Brewer ties it up. Great pass and 2nd assist. That was flat out gay!

I’m just glad he got it out of the way early in the game

Thanks for the update on the Backes goal, Matt…

What the @#$% is up with Mr. Roboto again? How bad does he have to @#$% up before AM benches his sorry android ass?

no problem, and I agree, its getting ridiculous and incredibly hypocritical that he sends down Wagner and keeps playing Brewer game in and game out making “rookie” mistakes, unless…they’re searching for trade options > read: bag of pucks (fingers crossed)

wow, fantastic passing on that goal, lol weight has an open net and still almost shoots it into garon’s glove

Game’s over in central Illinois. The Hyphenator stops all 25 shots that Hamilton throws at him, and the Rivermen win 5-zip. Martin Kariya with three assists, Charles Linglet with two goals, Mike Glumac with a goal and an assist.

B.

Why am I not surprised to see that @#$%ing Brewer’s a minus-2?

(insert “shaking head” icon here)

B.

Doug Weight needs to buy Erik Johnson something nice cause he singlehandedly has revived Weight’s career tonight

I give Garon an 8.75 on that one.

What was the deal with that offsides call on Kariya? What happened?

We Want A Taco!

matt wrote:

“I give Garon an 8.75 on that one.”

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No doubt; what a lame-assed penalty call there.

And the thing is, earlier in the period, when Reasoner backed into Toivonen in the crease, I said to my dog (because no one else was there to listen), “y’know, Shadow puppy, if the Blues went down and did that to Garon, this friggin’ zebra would have his hand in the air.”

Sure enough…

(insert “shaking head” icon here, again)

I’ll drop in on this thread tonorrow morning while I’m dicking around at work… :-D

…for now, it’s time to hit the sack. 0400 comes around pretty quickly.

Let’s Go Blues!

add walker and salvador to the brewer sucks train, that is horrible, how do you leave a guy alone in the slot for the 37th time (thats an accurate stat :P) over the last two games, you can’t tell me wagner would be doing a worse job than walker

can we get someone out there in OT other than Jay “Stone Hands” McKee and Barret “Muffin Man” Jackman, maybe someone with some offensive, how do you say, talent? Someone whose name starts with E and ends with rikJohnson comes to mind

Jason, there was a player coming on the ice and Kariya didn’t come off soon enough. The door to the bench is offsides. It’s kind of odd, doesn’t happen that often.

What the heck happened with the shootout. Why was Karia not out there?

THE BOTTOM LINE IS(sorry about the caps), when you have an all canadian officiating crew and a canadian team guess who gets the cheap calls??? u got it. that was one of the worst reffed games i have been associated with in any way. #15, the ref, i better not see that guy anywhere. if it weren’t for the season tickets and the net in front of me i’d have pinged him with a battery. we chanted the ref sucks. i booed brewer whenever he touched the puck(and people looked at me confused as i have a blues jersey on), and some guy yelled out during a quiet part hey brewer you’re team’s in blue.

i still can’t get down on sallie, he has to pick up so many mistakes brewer makes. poor tiovy, the kid can only rob a team so many times before he can’t stop yet another guy alone in the slot.

the last blues pp, kind of wondered what was going on. i know you’re setting up a good shot but with time ticking down sometimes it’s best to get christina agullierra dirrty and just throw pucks at the net and crash it. of course if garon’s ten feet out of the crease and some player gets pushed into him…well the all canadian(i poisoned their labat’s blue), officiating team’s there to blow the whistle. what happened to our defense? oh yeah brewer’s getting worse and worse every game. what would strickland say about his performance tonight? what ten games in one was he playing? was he trying to see if salvador could take a bouncing puck and beat all five edmonton players?

Just got back from the game… terrible officiating, but the Blues blew it all in the end, ’nuff said.

Chris D: That’s an interesting question if the teams from the great white north get more power play chances when playing American teams when the refs are from Maple Leaf country. Is there a site out there that would track it? Is there a way to track it?

Some of the calls were nit-picky, but a lot of the penalties (I’m thinking of Brewer’s hold and Walker’s high-stick, for example) were just lazy on the part of the Blues. If Tkachuk buries that one in the wide-open net in OT, no one’s complaining.

if the blues stop soft passing we win tow. not only did brewer YET AGAIN, toss a 3 mph pass up the boards in his own end right on the tape of a forward from another team, the 5 on three at the end of the game lost half its time on 4 mph passes by the point men.

actually LaNoceur, i’d still be bitching. i hate poor officiating that makes me question anything as laughable as questioning their country of orgin. but then again baseball found that white umpires favored white players after i believe a harvard study. so that would be interesting to see. but when backes was hit by stoll who left his feet and the guy gets a two minute boarding call, well, i’m stumped.

i’d still complain about brewer saying how he almost cost us the game. i’m no fair weather fan. if he starts showing some emotion and hard work then i become appreciative and he can win me over. i’m frustrated with him b/c he has the tools and is paid way too much without proving he’s worth that amount of money. a few months doesn’t make him worth it in my mind. i’d never pay penner, vanek or a whole host of others that are getting bank without much proof of consistency.

could you imagine if in the army right before you resigned, if you had some sort of test rating how much you could get paid by how you did on it? to wit, say you received an extra $100,000 for scoring a 400 on your pt test(without extended scale the high is 300). i guarentee you i’d have resigned and sccored a 400 and then after that i probably wouldn’t score that high again. i’d stay decent but i wouldn’t put the same effort in unless i felt like it.

and that is why win or lose there will be a spot light on his play until he shows hard work. like when he carried the puck to the net in overtime. i liked that. like if the refs called garon for diving i’d have liked that and they’d have shut me up. if they would have called a five minute major on the boarding on backes i’d have liked that the same as if backes committed the act.